Carriage-door



(No Model.)

G. LOWA.

CARRIAGE DOOR.

H Patented Apr. 10, 1883.

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' GUSTAVUS LOWA, OF ST. LOUIS, 'MISSOURI.

CARRIAGE-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 275,398, dated April10, 1883.

' Application filed December 7, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, GUSTAVUS Lows, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made anew and useful Improvement in Carriage-Door Flippers, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation, showing that portion of the carriage withwhich the improvement in question is immediately connected; Fig. 2, aview in perspective upon an enlarged scale, showing that portion of thecarriage-door with which the improvement is especially connected,theflippers being raised; Fig. 3, a similar view, the flippers being turneddown; andFig. 4, a view inperspective, showing one of the flippersattached to its irons.

' The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The present invention relates especially to the peculiar mode ofattaching the flippers to the carriage-door.

A, Figs. 1, 2, 3, represents a door of a carriage.

B B represent the flippers. Saving the present improvement, the door andflippers are of the usual construction. As-

hitherto made, it has been customary in attaching the flippers to hingethem to narrow plates, the outer one of which plates is insertedimmediately in the outer surface of the carriage-door, and the inner oneof the plates being similarly applied to the inner part of the door, orthat portion of the door which is used, in connection with the outerportion of the door, to form the receptacle for the sash. As thus made,the irons are not onlyliable to fracture; but owing to the fact that theouter iron is let into the surface of the door, so as to come flush withthe surface of the door, when the iron is broken and requires to berenewed or repaired it involves "the necessity of re painting andrefinishing the outer surface of the door. Such an operation is, fromthe nature of the finish given to 'the' carriage-door, quite expensive.To obviate this difliculty and to supply a stronger hinge for theflipper is the aim of the present invention.

In place, of hinging the flipper to a plate or iron in the outer surfaceof the door, it is at its outer corner,-b, hinged-to an iron of theshape shown at O,"Figs. 2, 4. The iron 0 is inserted in a mortise in thepart A of the door A, so as not to be visible in side elevation,;and

the flipper is then journaled to the iron '0, as

side of the carriage saving the pintle of the hinge, and whenever aflipper requires to be renewed it is only necessary to disconnect theflipper from the irons O D, the finish of the carriage-door not in anyway being interfered with by the operation. The need of renewing theflippers, however, is less than heretofore, for the irons as made in thepresent construction are much stronger than those previously employed,and from the manner of inserting them in the carriage-door there is lessliability of their being injured by the strains incident to the use ofcarriage-door flippers, for it will be observed that the ears b 12 uponthe flipper in the present construction come entirely upon the outersides, 0 (1, respectively, of the irons O D.

In the original construction above referred to, the flipper, at itsouter lower corner, is provided with an car, which comes within an earupon the iron corresponding to the iron 0, and

-as thus made any outward strain upon the flipper tended to break theear upon the iron. In the present case the strain is sustained by thepintle of the hinge, and there is no strain in practice brought uponeitherof the irons O D calculated to fracture them or to injure theouter surface of the door. The spring Eon the inside of the flipper B,pressing against the glass when raised, will prevent its rattling.

I claim- In a carriage-door, the flippers B B, each of which is hingedat both of its cornersb b"-to the door by means of irons O D, said iron0 being mortised into the outer portion, A, of the door, and the iron Dbeing mortised into the inner portion, A, of the door, substantially asdescribed.

GUSTAVUS LOWA.

Witnesses:

O. D. MooDY, SAML. H. Born.

